Finance Partner Business Lending and Merchant

Finance Partner Business Lending and Merchant Services

**Finance Partner Business Lending and Merchant Services**

**Job no**: 794065

**Business unit**: Finance

**Primary position location**: 395 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC

**Work type**: Permanent Full time

**Region**: Remote: Work Anywhere
- **Be a member of the Finance Partner team supporting Business and Private Banking.**:

- **Opportunity to show your uncompromising drive to help innovate and drive change.**:
**About You**

Your career at NAB is about more than money, it's about serving our customers well and helping our communities prosper. We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Partner to support NAB's Business Lending division. As the Finance Partner, you will provide commercial financial leadership, guidance and support to the business including financial planning, financial control, forecasting, reporting, analysis and advisory services.

This is achieved through understanding and interpreting financial and non-financial results, business drivers and trends, to enable better understanding of business performance and drive stronger business decision making.

**Your key accountabilities will include**:

- Support the translation of the strategy of the business unit into functionally effective plan. Provide the overall direction to the relevant BU leadership team to ensure development and delivery of objectives and initiatives within the strategic parameters.
- Support the BU/EU Executives in partnership with the HO/CFO, to grow the business, align with our strategic ambition and ensure transformation / simplification benefits are achieved in a sustainable and coordinated manner.
- Deliver monthly reporting, understand the performance drivers and provide key reasons for variance from plan and prior reporting periods.
- Support the production of half yearly and annual reporting requirements for by providing high quality commentary and meeting deadlines.
- Identify financial and non-financial performance trends through critical review and analysis, and develop and recommend strategies to improve business performance.
- Create insights to assist the business in understanding plan changes and options to meet plan.
- Collaborate to ensure simplification by ensuring all standard reporting and financial control activities are delivered in a one way same way approach across Finance
- Support the NAB Group's financial accounting, controlling, forecasting, planning and reporting process for the relevant business unit.
- Constructively challenging management's proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit, providing advice to the Business Units leadership teams on critical decisions and trade offs.

**Your Capabilities, Experience & Qualifications will include**:

- Strong stakeholder management skills where you can constructively challenge management's proposals and decisions in relation to the performance of the relevant Business Unit.
- Experience across a range of Finance disciplines including partnering with divisions, corporate centre planning and reporting and financial control roles.
- Tertiary qualification in Commerce/Business/Finance. CA/CPA preferable.
- Capability to work in a fast-paced, at times ambiguous and complex environment.
- Data and business intelligence, including advanced Excel skills and ideally some exposure to PowerBI.
- Good understanding of process, risk and controls on reporting and analysis.
- Advocate and drive change whilst maintaining effective controls and governance.
- Strong process improvement capability in both identification and successful implementation of process re-engineering initiatives.
- Sound professional experience in finance/accounting, financial services or corporate reporting.

**Inclusion and Diversity**

We know that our people make us who we are. That's why we have built a culture of equity and respect - where everyone feels valued and appreciated for being their authentic selves. In partnership with our multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we continue to foster an inclusive environment, where all NAB colleagues' unique backgrounds and identities are understood, respected and celebrated.

**More focus on you**

We're committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities.

**Join NAB**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

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